ALMOST AN ELEGY

A moving and incandescent volume from a poet celebrated for her
“unfailing mastery of her medium” (New York Times Book Review).

In poems of graceful lyricism and penetrating observation, award-winning poet Linda Pastan sheds new light on the complexities of ordinary life and the rising tide of mortality. Drawing from Pastan's five most recent volumes-including The Last Uncle (2002), Traveling Light (2011), and Insomnia (2015)-and with over thirty new poems, Almost an Elegy reflects on beauty, old age, and the probability of loss. Whether in a lush evocation of an impressionist painting or a wry and wistful ode to a car key, Pastan finds lucid meaning in the passage of time.
From “Mirage”:
I want to simply be one with the trees sighing
outside my window, sighing not for me
but to accommodate the wind.
Linda Pastan is the award-winning poet and author of A Dog Runs Through It (W. W. Norton, 2018); Insomnia (2015); Traveling Light (2011); Queen of a Rainy Country (2006); The Last Uncle (2002); Carnival Evening (1998) An Early Afterlife (l995); Heroes In Disguise (1991); The Imperfect Paradise (1988), PM/AM (1982); The Five Stages of Grief (l978); and A Perfect Circle of Sun (l971). Linda Pastan lives in Potomac, Maryland.